As the racist regime of Israel moves toward greater international
isolation due to its aggressive, belligerent policies, Iran receives
wider support from the world's nations for its uncompromising resistance
against the bullying superpowers and annulling their mischievous plots.
The world is witness to the growth of Iran's popularity while hatred
and disgust against Israel builds up progressively. Iran is reaching out
to the hearts and souls around the world while Israel ignites
denunciation and deprecation in the four corners of the globe.

Since Israel raided the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31, the flimsy
existence of Tel Aviv began to splinter as the world nations
collectively and categorically reacted to the atrocious mass killing of 9
peace activists in the international waters by the Israel Defense
Forces.

Israel's unlawful, brutal killing of the unarmed civilians aboard the
Freedom Flotilla sparked such a remarkable international condemnation
that even the most stalwart allies of Tel Aviv in the EU zone recalled
their ambassadors from Israel and called for a thorough, detailed
investigation of the incident which they described as offensive and
violent. The international condemnations were so extensive and intensive
that even the most pessimistic Israeli politicians couldn't envisage.
Four countries downgraded their diplomatic relations with Israel – in
addition to the four countries that had cut their diplomatic ties with
Israel during the 22-day Gaza war of 2008-2009, Twelve Latin American
countries condemned the Israeli actions, Twenty-one European countries
protested Israel and Twelve non-Arab Asian countries officially
disapproved Tel Aviv.

The precursor of global protests to Israel was Turkey which had lost 9
of its citizens in the raid. In an insightful, thought-provoking and
appreciable statement before his country's parliament, the Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly questioned Israel's impunity
from the international laws and called for a decisive end to the illegal
actions of this regime: "It is no longer possible to cover up or ignore
Israel's lawlessness. The international community must from now on say
'enough is enough'. Dry statements of condemnation are not enough ...
There should be results."

At the beginning and when the first news was released, the extent of
Israel's violence had not become clear to the public opinion; however,
as the international peace activists began retelling the stories of
their ordeal upon being deported by Tel Aviv to their respective
countries, the world realized that a great calamity had taken place.

Upon his extradition to Istanbul, the Irish historian and activist
Dr. Fintan Lane told the media about his terrible experience on the Gaza
Freedom Flotilla which was unjustifiably attacked by the Israeli
commandos on May 31: "when they boarded our boat, we resisted entirely
peacefully. I sat on the floor and tried to reason with them, but the
Israeli commandos physically attacked us. Fiachra (one of the Irish
passengers aboard the flotilla) was dragged around the ground and I had a
gun pointed in my face by a screaming commando. His mania was so
intense that I genuinely feared for my life. Others received beatings."

The American peace activist and anti-imperialist speaker Kenneth
O'Keefe was another passenger on board the Gaza aid convoy. He witnessed
the death of two of his Turkish colleagues in person and was brutally
harassed, tortured by the Israeli forces: "while in Israeli custody I,
along with everyone else was subjected to endless abuse and flagrant
acts of disrespect. Women and elderly were physically and mentally
assaulted… in stress positions while hand cuffed to the point of losing
circulation of blood in our hands. We were lied to incessantly, in fact I
am awed at the routineness and comfort in their ability to lie, it is
remarkable really. We were abused in just about every way imaginable and
I myself was beaten and choked to the point of blacking out… and I was
beaten again while in my cell."

Hassan Ghani, the 25-year-old Scottish journalist and media
correspondent of the Press TV was also among the flotilla travelers. He
was ruthlessly punished by the Israeli commandos in what he described as
the "brutal Israeli assault" on the flotilla: "we didn't expect a ship
with 32 different nationalities on board, with aid from 50 different
countries on board, would be attacked in such a brutal manner… They
began by throwing stun grenades on to the deck of the ship when people
were in the middle of morning prayers. Then they began using rubber
bullets, they tried to come aboard the ship from the side. People
repelled the commandos with water cannons they had set up on the side of
the ship. Then the Israelis used helicopters to drop people onto roof
and there was scuffles on the roof. The Israeli solders had already
opened fire on the ship, so people were grabbing anything they could to
stop the attack in international waters."

Another painful account of the flotilla raid was retold by the
prominent Swedish author Henning Mankell who described the Israeli
actions as "committing murder": "they got very aggressive and ordered us
to come down. There was one older man who was a little slow, so the
Israelis attacked him with an electric stun gun. He was in a lot of
pain. So was another passenger who was covered in paint after being hit
with a paint ball missile. The commandos searched the ship thoroughly
and emerged waving a razor and a metal-box cutting tool, which they
claimed were "weapons" intended to be used against them. All the
passengers were then herded into a group, with armed guards standing
watch as the ship was taken to Israel When we got off... we were made to
walk down a corridor of armed commandos who filmed all of us with
cameras. They stole my mobile phone, my money, my clothes and my credit
cards." Mankell said that he was held in a cell for 24 hours along with a
Swedish Member of Parliament and then deported even "without his
socks".

All of these accounts attest to the fact that Israel is being
reprimanded by people from the four corners of the world who object to
the inhuman policies and actions of Tel Aviv regardless of the
nationality they belong to and the political stance they champion.

Today, it's known to everyone that Israel is a political entity which
the United States supports in order to maintain its interests in the
Middle East and subject the region's nations. In the other words, Israel
plays the role of America's permanent representative in the Middle East
and is entitled to resort to every possible mean to intimidate and
bring under control the independent nations in the region. The fact is
that Israel is a fragile and unstable political regime and every day of
its shaky survival is hinged on the exertion of force and violating the
rights of other nations. As the Iranian journalist Mohieddin Sajedi once
noted, Israel cannot live without creating troubles. From mass killing
to occupation, from assassination to the construction of illegal
settlements, Israel continues to exist with illegal actions and this is
what keeps them alive.

The main adversary of Israel is Iran. Israel has repeatedly warned
Iran against the use of force and launch of a military strike on its
nuclear facilities. The reason is clear. Iran is turning into an
inspiring model for the independent nations around the world. Iran's
30-year-long resistance against imperialism and its courageous
confrontation with the bullying superpowers has made it an example of
victorious struggle with political arrogance and many independent
nations on the face of world see Iran on the frontline of battle with
the United States and its colonies such as Israel.

Iran is winning international popularity because it has demonstrated
the effectiveness of self-sufficiency in nationalizing the nuclear
energy. While Israel possesses up to 200 nuclear warheads in flagrant
violation of the international law and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
Iran has made striking advancements in taking over the nuclear power
and excelling in using it for peaceful purposes. The fact that Iran has
succeeded in nationalizing the nuclear energy without the assistance of
Western superpowers is indigestible for Israel which is the sole
possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East; that's why it has
warned Iran against a preemptive military strike; however, the reality
is that a 70-million-strong army stands by the resistance movement of
Iran and a coalition of powerful troops consisted of the independent
nations around the world, stand by Iran against the collapsing Israel
forever.

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